The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves....because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that a lot of people just believe anything you tell them, and no matter what it is, they just go along with the program. They're perfectly happy to take their pill every day and do what they're told, and work and buy things, and work and buy things, and stay out of any complex emotional situations. And whatever the authorities tell them to do, they do, and whatever the authorities say is the truth, they believe is the truth.